Jim Foley's Reading list

Database Connection Constants (ONLINE SERVER) Jul'23 ‘The Word: How We Translate the Bible―and Why It Matters’ by John Barton (2023)

{ "Throughout history, reception to the Bible has been influenced by the translation." }

Apr'23 ‘The Climate Book’ by Greta Thunberg (2023)

{
"A single barrel of oil - about 42 gallons - can do about the same amount of work as a man labouring for 25,000 hours."
"They keep living like there is no tomorrow."
"There are currently around 1.4 billion motor vehicles in the world."
"In no way can we expect that we as individuals should compensate for the wrongdoings of governments, media, multinational corporations and billionaires."
"Face the emergency. Admit failure."
"our emissions - We have decades of past emissions to compensate for."
"the climate and sustainability crisis"
"Tell it like it is"
}

Feb'23 ‘Tuzo: the unlikely revolutionary of plate tectonics’ by Nick Eyles (2022)

{ Canadian geoscientist -- 500 million years ago }

Jan'23 ‘Love is my Vocation: The Story of The Sisters of St. Ann in British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon’ by Sisters of St. Ann (1960)

{ 1858 - 1958 }

Dec'22 ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ by Bob Dylan (2022)

{ Essays on 66 songs. playlist interview }

Dec'22 ‘Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld’ by T. J. English (2022)

{ "Whatever you say, say nothing" [Seamus Heaney] }

Oct'22 ‘Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir’ by Jann S. Wenner (2022)

{ whew }

Aug'22 ‘Canadian Spy Story: Irish Revolutionaries and the Secret Police -Part One & Part Two’ by David A Wilson (2022)

{ Irish nationalism in Canada }

Aug'22 ‘The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld’ by Peter Edwards & Luis Horacio Najera (2021)

Jun'22 ‘This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life’ by Stefanie Green, MD (2022)

{ Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), set in Victoria BC, I'm not sure. }

Apr'22 ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

{ "We can't imagine the suffering of people of the future, so not much gets done on their behalf... narcissism." }

Mar'22 ‘Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now’ by John Doerr (2021)

{ "Fight or Flight? flight is not an option- we cannot outrun global warming - we're
going to have to fight this one out with every weapon we can muster."
"fairy tales of eternal economic growth" [Greta Thunberg] }

Feb'22 ‘What Strange Paradise’ by Omar El Akkad (2021)

{ "And yet there's an emptiness, something missing." }

Feb'22 ‘The Nature of Canada’ by Colin M. Coates & Graeme Wynn (2019)

{ "Diseases remind us that national boundaries are often of little significance for environmental forces" ['Nature We Cannot See' (2019)]
"Ecological sense does not come easily to moderns and postmoderns" [quote by forest scientist Stan Rowe in 'Advocates and Activists' }

Nov'21 ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen (2021)

{ Conversation #6 - 'Wrestling with Ghosts' }

Nov'21 ‘Forever Young: A Memoir’ by Hayley Mills (2021)

Nov'21 ‘Indian School Days’ by Basil H. Johnston (1988)

{ 'Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope.' }

Aug'21 ‘Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing - Part I: Foundations’ by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (2003)

Apr'21 ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need’ by Bill Gates (2021)

Apr'21 ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’ by Michael E. Mann (2021)

{ "the climate crisis" }

Mar'21 ‘Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson’ by Annye C Anderson and Preston Lauterbach (2020)

{ The life and afterlife of bluesman Robert Johnson (1911-1938) as told by his nonagenarian stepsister. }

Mar'21 ‘A Promised Land’ by Barack Obama (2020)

{ A mighty fine book. }

Feb'21 ‘Becoming (audiobook)’ by Michelle Obama (2018)

{ Michelle Obama's autobiography - read by her }

Jan'21 ‘To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest’ by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (2019)

{ biodiversity, “mother” trees, ... }

Dec'20 ‘The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz’ by Erik Larson (2020)

{ "On Winston Churchill's first day as the UK Prime Minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium." }

Oct'20 ‘Calico Joe’ by John Grisham (2012)

{ A novel }

Jul'20 ‘The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change’ by Gleb Raygorodetsky (2017)

{ "What makes Indigenous communities uniquely valuable in the global quest for climate change solutions is that they are where the traditional practices & understanding of nature meet modern technology & scientific insights." }

Apr'20 ‘This Is All a Dream We Dreamed’ by Blair Jackson & David Gans (2015)

{ An oral history of the Grateful Dead }

Feb'20 ‘Year of the Rabbit’ by Tian Veasna (2019)

{ An intense graphic novel about a family living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Reign [1975-1979] }

Nov'19 ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’ by Atul Gawande (2014)

Sep'19 ‘Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)’ by Denise Donlon (2016)

{ Denise Donlon is a Canadian business executive, television producer, author, public speaker, host, and member of the Order of Canada. }

Jun'19 ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ by Max Weber (1905)

{ A historical discussion, written in 1905, of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern Capitalism }

May'19 ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson (2011)

{ Steve Jobs [Feb 24 1955 - Oct 5 2011] }

Feb'19 ‘City in colour: rediscovered stories of Victoria's multicultural past’ by May Q. Wong (2018)

Oct'18 ‘Herbie Hancock: Possibilities’ by Herbie Hancock and Lisa Dickey (2014)

{ "I'd finally figured out how to turn my obstacle into an opportunity, which opened up a whole new world of possibility." }

Oct'18 ‘Been So Long: My Life and Music’ by Jorma Kaukonen (2018)

{ "Finns are a stoic lot." }

Sep'18 ‘Origin Story: A Big History of Everything’ by David Christian (2018)

{ "What will the Earth look like in two thousand years?" "Will human beings achieve a sustainable relationship with the biosphere?" }

Aug'18 ‘Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times’ by John Perry Barlow (2018)

Jul'18 ‘Paul Simon: The Life’ by Robert Hilburn (2018)

Jul'18 ‘The Life of Yogananda’ by Philip Goldberg (2018)